Subj : PKWare files in PKDOS, PKLIN and PKWIN32
To : Vince Coen
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Thu Apr 11 2013 04:14 pm
Hi Vince,
> 10 Apr 13 17:19, you wrote to All:
>> Two of these files are so huge that I only hatched them out to three
>> people today..
>> I will get them out to the other HUBs in the next few days or maybe
>> tonight.
>> The DOS file wasn't so big (4Meg), but the other two are 15Meg and
>> 23Meg.
> Having seen these anounced in allfix-file etc, most of them look old eg,
> rehatched files going back years!
No, I don't think so.. I'll check on PKWare's site, but you many notice that
Gert said PKWare sent him the latest versions. This is a different product
than what was previously released as well, I believe.
> Please ask the sender not to do this.
Yes, of course we don't want "old" versions re-packaged.. :)
> Another two points:
> I am noticing a lot of files coming through without the tag to delete old
> version of the same program/package, please ask all to start reusing this
> feature as it keeps the volume of the file base under some level of control.
Sure, makes sense. I know I sometimes forget to hatch with replace. :(
> File Descriptions: Do not need the name of the file nor tons of junk
> characters
>eg, pretty ? boxes etc. While these may work on some BBS systems they screw up
>on others including mine and as my bbs does not have a file description editor
> there is little I can do about it.
I agree totally here. It's a real mess when descriptions come in here that are
over 750 chars.. BBBS can't deal with those and it causes the file areas to
get messed up, skipping file descriptions sometimes. I'm not sure what other
bbs description limitations are, but they may be even smaller that BBBS's.
